George Leo Haydock

Take away. This passage is differently understood by commentators. By some it is understood thus: expel the evil one from among you, that is, the incestuous man. (Estius) — By others, it is understood to be spoken in a general sense, meaning, take away the evil of sin from among you. (Calmet) Bible Text & Cross-references: He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer, and admonishes them to purge out the old leaven. 1 It is heard for certain that there is fornication among you, *and such fornication, as the like is not among the heathens: that some one hath his father’s wife. 2 And you are puffed up: and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, who hath done this deed. 3 *I indeed absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 6 Your glorying is not good. *Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole mass? 7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Pasch, is sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. 10 I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortioners, or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world. 11 But now I have written to you, not to keep company: if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not so much as to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them that are without ? Do not you judge them that are within? 13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.